HMS Liberty

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Liberty.

• English ship Liberty (1632), a great ship wrecked in 1650
• HMS Liberty (1768) was a sloop belonging to John Hancock confiscated by the Royal Navy in 1768 for failure to pay customs duties. She was commissioned under Captain William Reid as a revenue ship. In July 1769 she seized two Connecticut vessels and brought them into Newport, Rhode Island. A group of Newport citizens boarded the Liberty, smashed her lifeboats, cut down her masts and cables, and set her adrift. She ran aground on a small nearby island and then burned.
• HMS Liberty (1779) was a cutter purchased in 1779, later re-rigged as a brig, and sold in Barbados in 1816.
• HMS Liberty - a sailing brig sunk in a collision in 1804.
• HMS Liberty - sailing brig serving as a tender to Lion in 1901.
• HMS Liberty was a paddle steamer/mine sweeper originally named Roslin Castle and renamed Wanderer in 1913.
• HMS Liberty (1913), launched in 1913, was a Template:Sclass- destroyer that served in World War I, fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, and was broken up in 1921.
• HMS Liberty (J391), launched in 1943, was an Template:Sclass- that served in World War II. She was sold to the Belgian Navy in 1949 and renamed Adrien de Gerlache.

For other ships with the same name, see Liberty (ship).